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Melissa B.

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Vancouver, WA

About Me:

I am a creative consultant for Knit Picks product development, and I help to choose yarn colors and design the multicolored yarns like Imagination, Stroll, and Felici.

My favorite kind of knitting is colorwork, and I love substituting colors to really make a colorwork project my own. Everyone I know seems to be having babies (including myself!), so cute little baby knits are frequently found on my needles as well.

Melissa's Blog

You've probably heard the podcast of the spring yarn preview, so I thought I would give a little more background into the Stroll and Shadow Tonals. When Tina asked me to design the colorways of these yarns, I thought it was a great idea. Because the Tonals are hand painted, we have exact control over just how variegated the yarn is--something that we could never quite achieve with the old kettle dyed… Continue

Now that our November catalog projects are online and catalogs are in the mail, I thought it would be fun to show you a few "behind the scenes" snapshots of our catalog shots. Often we have to put ourselves and our models in ridiculous looking situations to get that lovely and natural looking shot. To make things a little interesting, we've decided to make a game out of it. Can you guess what the product is we're shooting? (Hint: It's either a kit or a book project.)

When the weather turned chilly, I realized that Alice had outgrown all the hats she had as a newborn last winter. Knitting to the rescue! I'd had my eye on the Aviatrix Baby Hat pattern for a while, so that was an easy choice. Then I just had to go stash diving for the perfect yarn. I landed on… Continue

Remember the Portland contest I posted a few weeks ago? Sorry about the delay in picking a winner--we had lots of great entries, and I got sick last week, so it was a double whammy. We had so many awesome ideas suggested that we ended up choosing the top 10 entries and then drawing a random one from those. The lucky winner is Gwyneth who posted the following suggestions:

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Hello, I need some feedback here. Found a lovely afghan pattern, and want to make it up in good yarn. I am not sure which yarn to pick, I want a worsted weight and down, for a soft, cuddle up afghan for adults. Any suggestions on which yarn to use? I would greatly appreciate it. Leaning towards a noro type yarn. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I downloaded your pattern for Queen of Diamonds Fingerless gloves (so cool) I have a question about the cobweb lace fringe..... I'm following the pattern but when I'm finished with row 7 where you drop a every other stitch I have this very small loop that looks nothing like the beautiful long loops in the picture.... can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Hi Melissa - I am looking at your blog page, and I see the Peapod sweater. Is this your own design? Do you sell your designs? Can I get the pattern for this adorable sweater? What sizes will the sweater fit? I love this! Hope to hear from you soon.

melissa,
How does one deal with the ends in colorwork? I tried to weave one though the back of the stitches as I do for my other projects and the other colors show through on the front. I assume this is not the
desired effect. I definitely need some serious help on this one.
Thanks.
Judith